On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Bob Hoffman bob@bobhoffman.com wrote:
Starting to clean out my server. I use command line only.
Even though I tried not to install the gnome and x, a lot of stuff did install anyway.
In testing the removal process I find I cannot use yum remove due to losing to many programs due to dependency.
Trying to remove via rpm -e is nigh impossible as it appears to be an unknown chain of dependencies separate from the ones using yum that block any way of deleting it.
I am thinking to do a rpm -e and then trying to take out all the dependent ones..
However..I am not sure about taking out X since so many items were installed with the system and maybe some are needed?
It is obvious that I need to do one or a few files at a time since I can find no way to take out the whole xorg package as of yet.
My big fear....is X needed in some way by my server in ways I do not know? I use it as a webserver and shell in with no graphic interface stuff except those like system-level-security and such...
If yum remove is going to pull a lot of stuff out then most likely those packages have library requirements from X. In most cases for people who absolutely do not want X on their boxes, I say install a minimal system from kickstart. Then install just what you want... versus the other way around
No many x installed items deal with lvm and such...scary
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